jumperooooooo

a few months ago i went in on the purchase of a jumperoo exersaucer with my friend ingrid - her little boy is about 5 months older than milo so the timing is great - riley grew out of it just as milo is getting old enough to start using it.

i brought it home last night and he looooooves it. sat in it for about a half hour and just goggled at everything. the seat is suspended on springs so it moves whenever he does, causing a chain reaction of rattles and squeaks and as soon as we get batteries, flashing lights. he can *almost* touch the ground to bounce and spin, I don't think it'll be much longer.

The coolest part though is that it seemed like he was actually trying to grab for stuff! I'm sure when he starts pulling things off the table and spilling drinks we'll long for the 'non-grabbing' days, but right now it's very cool to watch him become more aware of his surroundings.

Daycare is going well. I've started to bring bottles for his morning and afternoon feedings and go over there around lunchtime to nurse him. It's been working out perfectly, except for the mornings when he sleeps until 10 AM and then isn't hungry again until 2 or 3. it doesn't happen too often, but it definitely throws my schedule out of whack when it happens.

Pics of him rocking the Jumperoo -

jumping baby

this one is from early january when my parents were here - as milo bounces he executes these awesome leg kicks in mid air. hilarity ensued.

hopefully now that we're shooting more video I'll get better at it. This one is a little jerky.


in other news, his first (short) week at daycare went really well. we're settling into a good routine - he's usually asleep when I drop him off, they give him a bottle when he wakes up and then I go over there around lunch time and again mid-afternoon to nurse him. He seems to be adjusting really quickly, which is great. He even likes the swing they have! It's situated in a corner so he has a good view of everything while he's in it. He's the youngest in there by 3 mos or so - most of the other babies are crawling and pulling themselves up on things already.

His first day of daycare:



and yesterday, looking all grown up in his sweater and jeans:







hopefully i'll get a chance to update his website this weekend as well!

video is fun

my boys....



(might take a while to load - i added music to this one. 'sea of love' by cat power, for those of you that are interested.)

let there be video!

hee hee it seems like i've got this video camera thing sort of figured out. as long as there is no editing involved, that is. here's a video of milo and my dad back in the beginning of january. we have some things that are more current but I have to figure out the editing as they are a bit on the long side!




not much else new to report i suppose. although he's rolling over now! oooo i have video of that, too!



oh what fun this is. although now i'll bet you all get spoiled by video! :)

Dustin, Jessica, Miluse & Isis are here for a couple of weeks, which is awesome. It's so nice to have visitors! Miluse was so funny when she first saw Milo (she's 10 mos old) - huuuge smile and she started clapping like crazy.

Milo is getting better and better at sleeping - last night he went down around 9 or so and slept all the way until 4:30 - it was great! And then went back to sleep until about 7:30, when he decided he required bouncing.

We're somehow having some issues with our web conferencing - mostly skype-related. I was trying to talk to our friends in NZ the other day and she could see but not hear us, and today Nate's parents could see and hear us but we couldn't see them. Very odd. Hopefully we'll get it worked out soon!

I'm back to work on Tuesday so you'll probably see an increase in posting as I take breaks from the excitement of accounting. Although now that I think about it, I'm going to be all kinds of busy - most of the department is going to be gone anywhere from 2-4 weeks for the offseason to use up all of their vacation time before the end of the fiscal year. I, of course, have already used mine over these last twelve weeks. Thankfully Ingrid had her maternity leave this summer so she'll be there the whole time as well!

finally!

roger is home, hooray!!! what does this mean for you? new pictures on the website, of course!

we've just been trucking along here...the front wheel for his fancy chariot stroller should get here today so I'm looking forward to our inaugural walk in it. He's been getting better about napping - once he's asleep I can put him down in his vibrate-y chair or on the bed and he will generally sleep on his own for about a half hour. Doesn't sound like a lot of time, I know, but you'd be amazed what you can get done in a half hour!

The bouncy ball is still the best way to calm him down. I don't get it.

Thanks to everyone for your advice on colicky and fussy babies - I think he is just fussy and will grow out of it. It does seem to be improving slowly - he hasn't made me cry in at least a week or two!

We took our first trip to the mall a few weeks ago with my friend Emily - she is about 14 weeks pregnant and needed to find some maternity jeans, stat. He did really well - we got a stroller frame for the carseat so I can just take him out of the car and snap the seat into the frame without having to muck about taking him out of his carseat or waking him up. He browsed Pier 1 and Target and Old Navy quite successfully and enjoyed picking out some new sleepers at Macy's.

Check out the new pictures; I just have January up for now but will try to make some progress on ones we've shot so far in February.

Hooray for Roger!!!

hooray!

an album of images from january (and a few strays from december) will be up soon on milo's website.

later:

i take it back. for some reason i can't browse to the images to upload them. curious!

dawning of the age of fussiness

yup, it's official...we have a ridiculously fussy baby.

the only thing that will make him stop crying is sitting on the exercise ball and bouncing. this has the added bonus of putting him to sleep. the downside is even once he's asleep, you can't stop bouncing. and god forbid you try to put him in his playpen or crib for his nap...about 3 minutes after setting him down he will achieve max volume and ear-splittingness. i hope daycare has someone who likes to bounce!

on the upside i DO think it's getting slowly better. after eating he'll amuse himself in his playpen for up to 45 mins before deciding it's bouncy time, which gives me a chance to eat and shower and things of that nature.

i will not go into nights because it's just too depressing. let's just say he wakes up a lot and won't go back to a sound sleep without bouncing or eating. nate and i are both very tired. i *heart* coffee.

on the computer front, roger is in jackson as we speak, getting his third replacement power supply in 4 years. as soon as i get the rest of my deposits for my summer weddings i am going to order a tower, weeha!! not sure what i'm going to name it yet.

at our ped appt on the 29th milo was 10 lbs, 5 oz and had grown another inch! he's still on the small side for his age but is growing at a great rate. he had his first round of shots, which made everyone cry except the nurse. she was great though - lightning quick!

i hope to post january pics to the website today, we'll just have to see if the little bird cooperates. so far it's not looking great, but we'll see!

oh and pls forgive any typos etc. - it's hard to bounce and type!